See also: Ayumi’s supplements (Trello)

Notes

• Examine is awesome for finding supplements.
• Herbs you take need to be standardized! otherwise there’s no guarantee of active compounds.
• To really vet something read the papers. Get papers on Sci-hub.

Sleep

Melatonin – Improve sleep

• Your body makes this before bedtime
• As you get older you make less
• Looking at blue light destroys it (computer monitors, phones)
• Cheap
• Start low, like 0.5 or 1 mg
• I take 1.5 mg nightly, this one cut in half

Flux (app) – Improve sleep

• Blue light messes sleep up
• This makes your screen yellowy at night

Modafinil – Focus while sleep deprived

• Novel stimulent, less cracked out than most
• Popularly used by militaries
• Pretty safe
• It’s like sleep insurance
• Not a substitute for sleep!
• See also: Reddit /r/afinil/

Hearing

N-acetylcysteine – Mitigate damage from loud noise

• Tested by military peeps shooting guns
• (2011) The efficacy of N-acetylcysteine to protect the human cochlea from subclinical hearing loss caused by impulse noise: A controlled trial
• (2007) NAC for noise: from the bench top to the clinic.
• I take NOW’s NAC 600 mg – 2 right before loud noise

Alcohol

N-acetylcysteine – Mitigate damage from binge drinking

Dihydromyricetin – Flush alcohol out faster

Milk thistle – Heal your liver

TUDCA – Heal your liver

Allergies

Spirulina

• The paper seems legit.
• My favorite brand: Nutrex